Improvement in game apparatus



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE...

MATTHEW O. BOGIA, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

I MPROVEMENT IN GAME APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,784, dated September 8, 1874; application filed July 31, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

-Be it known that I, MATTHEW 0. Boom, of the city and county of Philadelphia and the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Games; and

A I do hereby declare the following to be a clear and exact description of the nature thereof, sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to fully understand, make, and use the same, reference being .had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure l is a view, showing the manner of playingthe game. Fig. 2 is a side view of one of the cups or pockets. Fig. 3 is a transverse section thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to an improvement in the Letters Patent granted to Bogia and Zimmerman, February 17, 187 4, wherein the game is adapted to be played on the ground, for which purpose there are employed cups, to be driven into the ground, balls to enter the cups, and mallets to drive the balls.

The invention consists in a cup or pocket having a sloping face and radial corrugations to operate with one or more balls, the game being readily played on the floor of a parlor or other apartment.

Referring to the drawings, A represents cups or pockets, which are adapted to be laid on the floor of a room and arranged according to desired angles or plan. The upper face B of each cup slopes from center to the outer edge, and an opening, 0, is made in the center of the cup for the reception of a ball, D, which is to be rolled thereinto and pocketed.

It will be seen that the cup will rest firmly on the carpet or floor without fastenings or injury thereto, and when the ball is struck it will roll on the sloped face of the cup and reaching the opening 0 drop thereinto.

The manner and result of pocketing the ball will be subject to certain rules, and the count may be for or against the player.

The sloping face of thecup is formed with radial ribs or corrugations, whose elevated portions increase the difficulty of pocketing the ball. At the same time, if the ball is properly directed, the depressed portions of the corrugations will serve to guide the ball to the opening b.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The cup or pocket A for a parlor-game, havin g the sloping face B and radial corrugations to operate in connection with the balljD, substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.

MATTHEW G. BOGIA.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, J NO. D. PATTEN. 

